Rhythm and Rhetoric: A Linguistic Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Address Liilia Batluk Supervisor: Stuart Foster School of Humanities Halmstad University Bachelor’s thesis in English Acknowledgment My appreciations to my supervisor Stuart Foster for very helpful advice during the research. Abstract In this essay I shall analyze Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address‚ January‚ 2009 from the perspective of various linguistic techniques. More specifically‚ I shall propose and focus on the idea that the
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social identities (1989). John Swales is another scholar who has defined the concept of the discourse community. He focuses his work on distinguishing speech community from Discourse community. He describes speech communities as groups that share linguistic goals while discourse communities are those groups that have the six characteristics that he states. The main contribution that Swales provides is stating that a Discourse community “recruits its members by persuasion‚ training or relevant qualification”
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PRODUCT OF LINGUISTICS By: Agnechia Friska Rivalny/ 126332055 Introduction In the society‚ we always interact with other people around us. When people interact with others at anytime and anywhere they must use a language. Without a language‚ people will find some troubles when they do their activities and toward the others. There is no people or society without a language. The role of a language among the people in this life is very crucial. The study of linguistics reveals that
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Few words about the author Born William Sidney Porter‚ this master of short stories is much better known under his pen name "O. Henry." He was born September 11‚ 1862 in North Carolina‚ where he spent his childhood. O. Henry’s stories are famous for their surprise endings‚ to the point that such an ending is often referred to as an "O. Henry ending." He was called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. Both authors wrote twist endings‚ but O. Henry stories were much more playful and optimistic
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Linguistic Analysis: Rough draft. “Orange Is the New Black: I wasn’t ready” Some may say that the prison would be the best place to use the most extreme type of language. But it is true to say that it does not happen that way. On the contrary‚ in places like prisons‚ language plays a very important role. It can either lead people to death or to leadership. This automatically means that no matter where‚ emotive language will always be emotive language. It will always be either effective or not as
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Compare and contrast any two theories of the origins of language (as discussed in chapter 1of Yule). Give reasons why you think that one but not the other theory is more likely to be true. Since long‚ there are many hypotheses about the origin of language. Approximately‚ there are four rather famous one‚ that is‚ Divine theory‚ natural sound theory‚ oral-gesture theory and evolution. In this essay‚ I shall focus on the Divine theory and evolution theory for comparison. In my point of views
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human’s innate language acquisition structure and have grown up flourished by my passion of being intellectually able to seize this concept. This idea‚ in combination with my personal experiences‚ has made me consider studying English Language and Linguistics in further depth. My early years as a child were undoubtedly full of interaction with the English Language. I clearly remember the first time I held a literature book in my hands: it was an English one. Even though I was still unable to understand
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金融英语的语言特征及其翻译 专 业：英语 学 号：07121115 姓 名：阮超 指导教师姓名：白敬萱 申请学位级别：学士 论文提交日期：2011年5月 学位授予单位：天津科技大学 Linguistic Features and Translation of Financial English A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts by Ruan Chao Under the Supervision of Bai Jingxuan School of Foreign Languages Tianjin University of Science and Technology May 2011 ABSTRACT With increasingly closer communications on business
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A Linguistic Analysis of the Negroid and its Direful Existence Dr. Kime‚ PH.D. VLR Journal of Social Science http://vlripower.ning.com/group/social-scientists? In his recent paper‚ my colleague Doctor Blanchard explained in detail the evolutionary factors that underlie black inferiority. What remains to be explored however is the full extent of the impact this has had on the specie’s potential for socio-cultural development. I need not point out that the negroid tribes have failed throughout
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